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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 266
107TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 107-113
ASIAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION REAUTHORIZATION
ACT OF 2001
DECEMBER 7, 2001.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. JEFFORDS, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[to accompany H.R. 700]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (H.R. 700) to reauthorize the Asian Elephant Con-
servation Act of 1997, having considered the same reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
The population of Asian elephants living in the wild has dramati-
cally fallen to about 40,000 animals. These wild populations are lo-
cated in 13 countries in South and Southeast Asia. The largest pop-
ulation of 20,000 Asian elephants, or 50 percent of the total, reside
in India; and the smallest population of 40 animals is located in
Nepal. What is equally distressing is that there are only about 14
populations of 1,000 or more individual elephants in a contiguous
area. Seven of these populations are found in Burma and India.
This means that such drastic population fragmentation increases
the likelihood of geographic extinctions and greatly reduces the
long-term viability of the species. In addition, it has been estimated
that there are about 16,000 domesticated elephants.
The Asian elephant is protected under our Endangered Species
Act, and is also listed on the Red List of Mammals by the IUCN-
World Conservation Union and on Appendix I of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
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